2013 / 6 vol.143
1,470 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: A Profusion of jQuery Plug-ins
Introducing a Plethora of Popular Plug-ins that are Easy to Implement and Essential for Improving the Quality of the Site!
Having surpassed the realm of de facto standard and now considered the basis of Web development, jQuery continues to evolve with the release of 2.0 in April. Keeping pace, new plug-ins are brought out to the world one after another. This feature focuses on cutting-edge jQuery along with over 40 plug-in samples that make jQuery experience richer and more efficient. From among a diverse array of plug-ins released in various fields, we introduce not only the “latest” but also ones with the most useful features.
Feature 2: Let’s Design through Arts and Crafts
Making Logos, Visuals and Textures Using Analog Methods
Nowadays design can be all done on computer. However, by incorporating analog materials and methods instead of doing everything on PC, you can achieve natural textures and freer expressions that computers cannot muster. When looking at the design through a Web browser especially, such analog elements stand out and bring out the quality of the site to the fullest. We introduce crafty design ideas that designers have been ushering in to their work. They are not only useful but will definitely excite creative minds.
Portrait - Web Craftsman’s Portrait -
HAYASHI Mayumi_I Want to Prove that “Being Interesting” is Valuable to the Society
There is no higher hurdle than being able to say to yourself that you are “interesting - omoshiroi.” Nevertheless, “Omoshirohojin” KAYAC, based in Yokohama and Kamakura, daringly named itself interesting. Among the members of the company, a creator HAYASHI Mayumi has taken a lead on perpetual attempts to do something interesting.
TSUKURUHITO
MIZUSHIRI Yoriko (Video Artist)_Animation that Breathes
Languid rhythm and cadence. Magical “tactile” sensation felt through its movements seems to reach out directly to the viewer’s body. MIZUSHIRI Yoriko’s animation, consisting of simple lines and palette, has a defining difference from other video works. A New Face Award winner of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division and a nominee of this year’s Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy Short Film Competition. What is behind the work of MIZUSHIRI, who’s drawing attention from both Japan and abroad?
What Design can Do: Dialogue
NAKAGAKI Nobuo × NAGAHARA Yasuhito “Genes of Design that Express the Mind (1st Half)”
Inviting NAKAGAKI Nobuo, who specializes in info-graphics, the 1st installment of this two-parter introduces “Meme Design School,” a school for working people offered every Saturday in Aoyama, Tokyo, and its education.
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.20 Serial BOT Project Special Interview
This time a hacker art unit and the mastermind of this serial Exonemo attempt an interview with “KEIGO (@KeigoTheBot),” a Twitter BOT that they have been developing with the objectives of robotizing the writing process of the serial itself. BOT “KEIGO” tweets using 10-year worth of our magazine’s text data as a source. His mouth(?) reveals the current conditions of the project and shocking facts!!!
[Focus On] Hello! Shanghai!! A Trip to Experience Shanghai’s Creatives!
With the TapApp Awards Grand Prize Winner
KIMURA Koji and TONKA Seitaro of STARRYWORKS, whose “Iropiko” won a Grand Prize at Smartphone application contest “TapApp Awards 2013,” took a 2-night trip to Shanghai. By communicating with Shanghai-based creators in person, they seem to have felt “Shanghai breeze” that one can never experience through an ordinary sightseeing tour.
[Focus On] New Image that Yahoo! JAPAN Aspires for and the Possibilities of Web Creators
Will Creating Banner Ads Become Fun? Focusing in on the Mastermind of One of the Biggest Domestic Portal Sites Yahoo! JAPAN
In January 2013, Yahoo! JAPAN started a new Web advertisement solution. The renewal of the portal site, which boasts the largest number of users in Japan, holds the promise of influencing the direction that Web advertisement will take as a whole. We talked to the head of Marketing Innovation Department TOMOZAWA Daisuke, who is involved in Yahoo!’s ad reformation.
WF Inside Story
Expressing the World of the Film “Petal Dance” with Subtractive Design and Careful Direction
Now in theaters, “Petal Dance” is a road movie about two girls who head to the north-most Town of Wind to visit their college friend for the first time in 6 years. Without any dramatic events, the film manages to leave strong impression on the viewer’s mind through ordinary conversations and beautiful scenery filled with sky, clouds and wind. With no flashy elements, its Website artfully conveys such an atmosphere of the work. Director ISHIKAWA Hiroshi, producer ISHIZUKA Seigo, publicist OSHIMA Miki and creators of the Website SATO Masato, ABE Masahiro and NAGAO Eishin will share with us their mastery in translating the film’s mood to the Website.
Yoshimoto × Web Designing “Choco Banana” Planning Session
Jungle Pocket × KATSUMOTO Yuichiro
Having relocated from Japan to Singapore, KATSUMOTO Yuichiro continues to plan and develop innovative toys. Six years since its debut, comedian trio Jungle Pocket is on a rising note in both popularity and talent. From horse racing, to life in Singapore, to comedy skit writing, ever-changing topics of this session eventually made their way through to never-seen-before prop making...!
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
CSS Lab._Freely Manipulating Link Expressions
Text: KASAI Shinpei (Coding Factory)
jQuery Lab._Touch pad-conscious Flexible Grid Layout
Text: HAYASHI Yutaka, BEHARU Takayasu
Flash Lab._Performance Optimization of Mobile AIR Application
Text: IKEDA Yasunobu
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
Sam Dallyn_Not the Latest but the Best!
WD Website Front
FLASH VS HTML, E STANDARD, TYO|UT 2013, POP-UP! PI'S EPIC JOURNEY, Ebara Okuchi no Naka no Yuenchi, CGPWEB, and more
one's view
History is Always Moving
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
Autodesk 123 catch
“Wherever Door” for Fully Enjoying Serendipity
Text: NISHIMURA Mariko (Bascule Inc.)
The Secret Door
A Game of Life, carrying or carried.
Text: OHBA Shunsuke
LIXUS Corporation
Contents like “Documentary Web Program”
Text: NAKAGAWA Naoki (un-T factory)
INTO THE ARCTIC
Tour De Graphique - A Challenge in the Time of One CD -
Vol.3: On-magazine Live Collage Using “Cars”
Text&collage: KAWAMURA Kosuke
Ideas for Local Creatives
“ISHINOMAKI 2.0” Sent from That Afflicted Site to the World
Text: SUGA Daisuke (Smart Design Association)
From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"
An Era where You can’t Work Overtime Even if You Want!?
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
Introduction to Web analytics for Web Creators
Efficiently Utilizing Heat Map Tool and Behavioral Analysis Tool
Text: OGAWA Taku
Social Seeds
SNS “Hater” that Shares not “Like!” but “Hate”
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)
Mobile Service Front Line
Antenna_Purely Home-grown Curatorial Magazine that Pushes through the Void of Media
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi
The Secrets of Digital Marketing
Brand Defamation Issue Regarding Expired Domain Names
Text: OHTA Kenji
News Crawler
(News)
WD Reviews
[FILTERiT4 v4.5][Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 BETA][iPhone Screenshot Maker]
Hagihara Research Institute
Business Forecast Becomes Possible with the Use of Retrieval Data
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#25 “Mecha Designing”
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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